Paper-fastener-inserting device.



Patented May 31, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. SAVAGE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PAPER-FASTENER-INSERTING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. '761,546,6.ated I VIay 31, 1904.

Application filed July 1903. Serial No,l 167,536. (No model.) Y

specification.

My invention consists of an improved device for inserting paper-fasteners of the kind commonly known as McGill rfasteners 1n paper-packs and comprising a head-piece and a two-part paper penetrating and clenching member, the said improved inserting device being designed to facilitate inserting the fasteners in the rst place, particularly when numerous sheets .are tobe fastened and the paper is strong and resistant, and to reinsert the fasteners after Vunfasteningpacks that have been previously fastened,as hereinafter de` scribed,'reference being made 'to the accom panying drawings, 1n whichv Figure l 1s aview showing the fastener 1nserted in a pack of papers. r Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the inserting device and a pack of papers as in the act of inserting the fastener. which the base-piece is shown in end view. Fig. 4 is a plan View of thebase-piece.' Eig. '5 is a plan view of the base-piece with the cover removedand showing the inserting member packed in the base-piece for conveniently storing and shipping.-

The inserting instrument is alance-pointed flat blade a when used for flat fasteners, as the common McGill fasteners, with a socket I) in the base and adapted for reception of the members c of the fasteners to b e preferably inserted their whole length, so that the base end of the lance abuts against the under side of the head 0l. With a fastener so applied the lance -is then thrust through the paper-pack e I and pulled out at the opposite side of the pack, leavingl the fastener in the pack, as represented in Eig. l, to be clenched Ain the ordinary With such a lance I employ a hold- Fig. 3 is an elevation of the device in ing-base in which the lance having the fastener inserted in its socket may be set upright, asY

in Figs. 2 and 3, affording substantial holding fof the fasteners, so that both hands may-be freely used to force the packs down on the lance. Such a holding-base may consist of a block f, having a groove g inits upper side of suitable width and depth for receiving the head of an inverted fastener, with a cover L' over the groove, having a slot z' parallel with and central thereto for the traverse of the clenching members of the fasteners and the base of the lance when applied to the fasteners and the fasteners placed with the head in the groove.

The fasteners may be first applied to the lance and both be insertedl in the holder together, or the' fasteners may be first inserted in the holder and then have the lance applied tothem. The lance is detached from the inserted fasteners before the fasteners are clenched; but the fasteners must be removed from the holder before they are clenched, this being done by sliding them out of the open ends of the groove and the slot.

A lance of proper size and'depth of socket for the largest fasteners,- may serve well for the smaller sizes of fasteners, or, ifpieferred,

they may be made in two or more graduated sizes.

' What I claim as my invention is- The combination with a paper-perforating `lance having a longitudinal socket in the base Signed at New York, N.,Y., this 20th day of July,l903.

GEO. C. SAVAGE.

Witnesses: C. SEDGwioK, A. I). THAYER. 

